snake ID

Saw this little fella today 200mm ish long 10mm round.  So grass snake or young adder

Had a yellowish ring just under the head but that could have been old skin. There has to be a snake expert on here .

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Seek says…

Yarp, it’s a Grass Snake (I think 🧐)

Baby grass snake

Do a Google image search for the words “baby grass snake” and it pretty much your exact pic

I’ve only ever seen large grass snakes. I had no idea we had different sub spices.

No where near water though.

Yup, that’s a snake

Given my username I can confirm that it is indeed a grass snake
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Why that user name?

Snake expert??

Looks like a standard grass snake, harmless to humans, unless it’s angry.

Nice beast!

Very easy way to identify a grass snake – a black and yellow band each side of the head. We only have two other native species, and neither one has that. Be warned, if you pick one up, it’ll probably squirt an obnoxious smelling liquid into your hands. One I picked up once vomited up a frog it had swallowed. A whole one. 🤮

200mm ish long 10mm round

Grass Snakes are made of Reynolds 853 – and have a wall thickness of 0.4mm. So a 10mm OD snake will have a 9.2mm ID – although at the butted ends it’ll be more like 8.6mm

Houns spotted in a garden centre earlier this year!… 🙂

Why that user name

Because I saw one on the trail the day I changed my username 🙂

Why that user name
Because I saw one on the trail the day I changed my username 🙂

My first username was from the kids TV channel that was on TV at the time I was casting around for a name. My second came because I was reading Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow  by Jerome K Jerome at the time.  😀

I can’t be the only one who expected the op to be this chap can I?
Guardian link, man with 11 footer goes to hospital

Not often that Bishopstoke, just up the road from here, hits the national headlines! 😆